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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,038 posts)
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 03:04 PM Jan 2021

In Defense of Trump, Rubio Claims Only Third World Countries Convict Their Leaders. He's Wrong.

If facts are important, Marco Rubio could stand to learn a few. His recent claim that “only in the Third World” are high-level politicians tried and convicted of crimes is easily debunked.

In an interview Wednesday, Rubio espoused his unyielding support for twice-impeached ex-President Donald Trump.

“The first chance I get to end this trial, I’ll vote for it,” Rubio said in reference to Trump’s presumably upcoming trial in the U.S. Senate. The House of Representatives previously impeached — or accused — Trump of inciting the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol Complex on Jan. 6.

Rubio mounted this defense in support of a person who used to berate him by calling him “Little Marco.” But his endorsement of the ex-president went factually off the rails.



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/in-defense-of-trump-rubio-claims-only-third-world-countries-convict-their-leaders-hes-wrong/ar-BB1dboJm?li=BBnbfcL

Guess little Marco like the taste of Trump's dingleberries.
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dutch777

(3,027 posts)
4. That's because tin pot dictators don't usually make it in first world countries...but here we are
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 03:23 PM
Jan 2021

He really is a bit of simpleton, isn't he? He and DeSantis must be related.

malthaussen

(17,205 posts)
5. In other words, he doesn't want us to "look" bad.
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 03:34 PM
Jan 2021

Castigate Mr Rubio as you please, I doubt he is alone in thinking this way.

-- Mal

Nitram

(22,822 posts)
7. So Rubio feels having a constitution makes us a third world country. Following the rule of law
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 04:28 PM
Jan 2021

makes us a third world country. What actually makes us a third world country is the Republican Party.

beastie boy

(9,376 posts)
8. Of course he is wrong. Third World countries don't convict their leaders. They incite mobs to attack
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 05:43 PM
Jan 2021

their leaders and execute them without trial or conviction.

...Did anyone try to run this by Little Marco and ask him for comment?

 

AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
9. Soooo... When did Iraq become a third world country...
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 06:00 PM
Jan 2021

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although, we probably won't hang Trump like they did Saddam!
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hatrack

(59,587 posts)
10. Google "Pierre Laval" or "Silvio Berlusconi", you pathetic, dehydrated little man
Fri Jan 29, 2021, 01:04 AM
Jan 2021

God, he's fucking stupid.

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